Sookie's brother Jason is also a suspect in the murders, having been sexually involved with both suspects at one time or another. As she spends more time with Bill and gets to know more about him, Sookie understands that Bill is tired of moving from place to place and wants nothing more than to settle in one place and make a home. Some of the people in town wonder if Bill has anything to do with their deaths, but Sookie is sure of his innocence. Realizing she is unable to hear his thoughts, Sookie is thrilled for more than one reason to have met the attractive vampire.Īs daily life continues, women are being murdered in Bon Temps, and they have ties to vampires. Events require Sookie to save the vampire from people looking to profit from the sale of his blood, and Sookie comes to the rescue, saving Bill the vampire from the clutches of the Rattrays, Mack and Denise. Fascinated by the possibilities, Sookie is thrilled to have a vampire in Bon Temps, her home town.
Sookie deals with this as best she can, but longs for the day when she doesn't feel so isolated.Ī vampire arrives in Merlotte's, the bar where Sookie works, and changes her life. The concentration that it takes for Sookie to maintain daily life and not read the minds of those around her is intense, and as a result sometimes people around her think she is crazy. Though happy, Sookie is different from everyone else because she is a telepath. Also relevant to plot development is the fact that vampire blood accelerates healing, increases strength, improves the libido, and make the person who drinks it better-looking.Sookie Stackhouse is a waitress in rural Louisiana in search of something more. At some point in the recent past, Sookie tells us, the invention of synthetic blood, called Tru Blood, has made it unnecessary for vampires to feed on humans for sustenance, thus allowing the world's previously underground vampire community to reveal its existence to humans. Sookie Stackhouse falls in love with the vampire, Bill Compton, whom she met at the diner she works at, Merlotte's, owned by Sam Merlotte. In the world of the novel, vampires (and other supernatural creatures) are a reality.
It is set during the early 2000s, approximately the same time as the book's publication. It was adapted into True Blood 's first season.ĭead Until Dark, like the rest of the series, is narrated by Sookie Stackhouse, a telepathic waitress from the small fictional Louisiana town of Bon Temps, not far from the non-fictional town of Shreveport. Dead Until Dark, published in 2001, is the first novel in Charlaine Harris' series The Southern Vampire Mysteries.
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